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From: Lynn%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Lynn Gold)
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Subject: Where phone solicitors get their numbers from
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 07:33:33 EST
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As someone who, many years ago, worked as a telephone solicitor, yes,
Cole's looks just like a set of the white pages except that it organizes
phone numbers by address rather than by name.  This allows a phone solicitor
to, in effect, go "up and down the street."

I was under the impression that the phone company doesn't regularly make
Cole's readily available to the general public, though.

--Lynn
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